NUT

noun nuts

1. broadly Any of various hard-shelled seeds or hard, dry fruits from various families of plants. There are many sorts of nuts: peanuts, cashews, pistachios, Brazil nuts and more.
2. broadly Such a fruit that is indehiscent.
3. A piece of hardware, typically metal and typically hexagonal or square in shape, with a hole through it having internal screw threads, intended to be screwed onto a threaded bolt or other threaded shaft. As the bolt tightens into the nut, it pulls the tenon on the side rail into the mortise in the bedpost and locks them together. There are also some European beds that reverse the bolt and nut by setting the nut into the bedpost with the bolt inserted into a slotted area in the side of the rail.
4. slang The head. Off one's nut—crazy; mad. S. Nut is a slang term for the head.
5. slang A crazy person. He was driving his car like a nut.
6. colloquial An extreme enthusiast. a fashion nut — a gun nut — a sailing nut
7. Ireland, UK, dated, slang An extravagantly fashionable young man. ‘You are not going to be what they call a Nut, are you?’ she inquired with some anxiety, partly with the idea that a Nut would be an extravagance which her sister's small household would scarcely be justified in incurring ….
8. archaic The glans (structure at the extremity of the penis or of the clitoris). [...] The Tentigo, head or Nut of the Clitoris, covered by the Nymphes, as by a foreskin and the impaſſable paſſage of it [...]
9. plural, slang, vulgar A testicle, often used in the plural form. I kicked him in the nuts.
10. slang, uncountable, vulgar Semen, ejaculate, cum. As loudmouthed lovermen, these Lil Jon-endorsed ATLiens denigrate women from the window to the wall, generously offering to "make nut come out your nose."
11. countable, slang, vulgar Orgasm, ejaculation; especially release of semen; cumshot He just needs a good nut to make himself feel better.
12. US, slang Monthly expense to keep a venture running. $8,000 a month? I had no idea my nut was that big.
13. US, slang The amount of money necessary to set up some venture; set-up costs. My attorney was waiting in a bar around the corner. “This won't make the nut,” he said, “unless we have unlimited credit.”
14. US, slang A stash of money owned by an extremely rich investor, sufficient to sustain a high level of consumption if all other money is lost.
15. On stringed instruments such as guitars and violins, the small piece at the peghead end of the fingerboard that holds the strings at the proper spacing and, in most cases, the proper height.
16. slang En, a unit of measurement equal to half of the height of the type in use.
17. A shaped piece of metal, threaded by a wire loop, which is jammed in a crack in the rockface and used to protect a climb. (Originally, machine nuts [sense #2] were used for this purpose.) When placing nuts, always look for constrictions within the crack, behind which the nut can be wedged.
18. attributive The best possible hand of a certain type. Compare nuts (“the best possible hand available”). nut straight, nut flush, nut full house
19. The tumbler of a gunlock.
20. A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place.
21. A small rounded cake or cookie. dough-nut

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verb nuts · nutting · nutted · nut

1. To gather nuts. I will no more a-nutting go ; That journey caused all this woe.
2. UK, slang, transitive To hit deliberately with the head; to headbutt. One night, we were fumbling each other out by the toilets when a Rocker in full leathers came out of the Gents and, without breaking stride or saying a word, nutted me square between the eyes. I went down as though shot...
3. mildly, slang, vulgar To orgasm; to ejaculate. I got a bitch that suck my dick 'til I nut
4. slang To hit in the testicles.
5. slang To defeat thoroughly.

noun nuts

1. alternative Alternative form of nuth (“Indian nose ring”).nuth

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interjection

1. Scotland, colloquial No. Did you like them boys? I goes. Nut. She shook her hair. Neither? Nut. Right townies.

proper noun

1. UK, abbreviation, historical, initialism Initialism of National Union of Teachers.National Union of Teachers

proper noun Not · Nunut · Nenet · Nuit

1. Egyptian The goddess who serves as the personification of the sky.